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Essential Films Canon
A ranked list of the best films of all-time.
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1. The Mechanical Man
L'Homme machine | Directed by: Étienne-Jules Marey | Produced by: France
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Released in: 1885
Étienne-Jules Marey had a towering impact on the development of cinema both technologically and aesthetically. His earliest work, The Mechanical Man (1885), is a curious and groundbreaking animation for its time. On the one hand, its tricks are meant to serve the technical purpose of reproducing mov… →
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